{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004/article-11",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/163",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Services and Section 17C Agreements (Transitional and other Ancillary Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Acceptance of temporary residents",
  "text": "(1) This article applies where–\n(a) on or before 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had accepted a person as a temporary resident under paragraph 7(b) of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations; and\n(b) on 31st March 2004, his responsibility for that patient had not yet been terminated under paragraph 9A of that Schedule or the period for which the person was accepted as a temporary resident had not yet come to an end.\n(2) In a case to which this article applies, the person shall, on 1st April 2004, be treated as if he had been accepted as a temporary resident by the succeeding contractor under–\n(a) the term of its general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 16 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations, subject to the modification that reference to a period of three months in that term shall be read as a reference to a period of three months starting with the date on which the person was accepted as a temporary resident by the relevant medical practitioner under paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations; or\n(b) the equivalent term of its default contract subject to a modification to the same effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2018/66",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/163/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:31:52.079575+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}